Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 105 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers

The four of them were chatting when suddenly there was a commotion at the entrance of the venue.Everyone looked up and saw a group of people walking in from the door.The first person was a burly middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes, and the person next to him in a black tunic suit was director Zhang Yimou.Followed by several young men and women.

This situation is much larger than that at the Huabiao Awards Ceremony before, without him, because "Not One Less" which was shortlisted for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Feature Film this year just won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival last month. It is the second time for the director to win the award, and he is also the first Chinese director to win the highest honor of the three European film awards three times.

Director Zhang has created history, and at the same time he has left behind Director Chen who has always been as famous as him.

Today is the premiere of Director Zhang's new work, which naturally attracted the attention of countless media and filmmakers.Not only were the reporters pointing their cameras at them for a burst of snapping shots, but also many familiar or unfamiliar filmmakers came forward to greet Director Zhang and his team.

"Hey, Xiao Yizi is here too!"

Liu Ye pointed at the thin girl in a black dress next to Zhang Yimou and cried out.

"And Teacher Zheng."

"Hey, isn't that buddy next to Mr. Zheng from the last musical class?"

The lead actor in the movie "My Father and Mother" is Zheng Hao, who is a physique teacher of Chinese opera; the other actor is Sun Honglei, who is also a college student who graduated from the musical class of Chinese opera.

Li Tang found it very interesting that the films shortlisted for the Golden Rooster Award this time, from directors to behind-the-scenes creators, are almost all from Nortel.But most of the actors they selected were graduates or current students of Chinese opera.

There are very few actors in Nortel, and there are some actors, but most of them are from the older generation. Li Tang and Ning Jing, who was shortlisted for the best actress, are probably the only two graduates who have acted in the 90s.

In fact, Ning Jing is not a serious student in the acting department of the Shanghai Opera. She attended the Advanced Stage Modeling and Acting Class of the Shanghai Opera.

But after all, they are very popular now, they need this star alumnus for the show, and they also need the aura of the famous school of the show, it can be said that they hit it off.

Many people surrounded Director Zhang and his party to say hello, and Liu Ye even waved to his classmates and teachers frequently in the crowd.Li Tang didn't join in the fun, but stood aside and watched calmly.

Director Xiao Teng didn't think much about his identity, and stood with Li Tang, and he was very disdainful of Liu Ye's ostentatious behavior.

The director is also in the same circle. Fundamentally speaking, his father, director Teng Wenji, and Zhang Yimou are in the same circle. They were both generals under Wu Tianming, the director of Xiying Studio.In private, director Xiao Teng had to call Zhang Yimou "Uncle Yimou".

Director Zhang and his party walked in while nodding to the people on both sides.When walking past Li Tang and Director Xiao Teng, Director Zhang suddenly stopped and turned to look in their direction.

Director Xiao Teng felt proud for a while. After all, he was Uncle Yimou, and he always wanted to say hello to his eldest nephew when he saw him.In fact, he came here with his father this time, just to see the world, and to get acquainted by the way, which shows that the second generation of the Teng family has officially come out.

Just as he straightened his suit and opened his mouth to greet Zhang Yimou, he heard Zhang Yimou stretch out his hand to Li Tang and said, "Xiao Li, hello, we meet again."

At this moment, Li Tang was really flattered. Just now he witnessed that Director Zhang only greeted some veteran filmmakers, and everyone else smiled and nodded.

He hurriedly stepped forward, held Director Zhang's hand with both hands, and said with a slightly excited expression, "Hi, Director Zhang! Congratulations on winning another award, and I wish your new film a hit!"

"Thank you!"

Director Zhang expressed his gratitude with a little force on his hand, and then nodded to Director Xiao Teng who was standing aside with an embarrassed expression, as a greeting.

Anyone present with a discerning eye could tell that Director Zhang looked at Li Tang differently. Many people looked at Li Tang more subtly, as if they really wanted to find out why this young man could stop Director Zhang and greet him.

When Director Zhang and his party passed by, Director Xiao Teng immediately asked in a low voice: "Be honest, what is your relationship with the director?"

"It's okay, it's just the second meeting."

In fact, Li Tang himself was also at a loss. He couldn't figure out why Director Zhang stopped to say hello to him.Of course, he would not show his doubts on his face, but just told the truth calmly.

"Cut, can you talk properly?" Director Xiao Teng expressed disbelief.

"Really." Li Tang was innocent.

"I believe you are a ghost!"

Obviously what you are telling is the truth, but what you show is easy to be misunderstood. People who are well versed in the way of communication understand it. This is called taking advantage of the situation.In the words of Brother Xun, who has two jujube trees at home, this is called pulling the tiger's skin to pull the banner.

Although Li Tang didn't know Director Zhang's intentions, he knew that there must be a reason why Director Zhang was interested in him. Before he found out this reason, he didn't mind using Director Zhang's name to put a halo on himself.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the opening ceremony of the 8th China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival officially began. According to the usual practice, the leaders of the Cultural Association, the Film Association and the local government gave speeches, and then the nomination certificates began to be issued.

In addition to Li Tang, who was nominated for the Best Actor Award, Teng Rujun, who played the father in "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog", and Tian Chengren, the male lead in the movie "Golden Wedding", were also nominated.

Mr. Tian is in his 70s, Teng Rujun, a teacher of Chinese opera, is in his 50s, and Li Tang is in his 20s. It is easy to remind people of a commonly used term - three generations of old, middle and young.

Affirm the achievements of the older generation, highlight the backbone, and encourage the younger generation.

After the opening ceremony was the premiere of "My Father and Mother".

This is a very beautiful movie, telling the love story of a village flower named Zhaodi and a village teacher.In terms of visual experience, it is like the beautiful scenery and bright colors of director Zhang Yimou's previous works.

As far as the film itself is concerned, director Zhang Yimou obviously concealed the ideological critical edge in his previous works and washed away his reflection on national character in this film. Psychology of love.

Compared with Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, who has "Little Gong Li", is much more youthful and immature, and it is precisely this youthfulness and immaturity that perfectly interprets the character of Zhaodi.

Li Tang is too familiar with Zhang Ziyi, one of the Chinese actresses he was most familiar with in his previous life.

Because Zhang Ziyi has been developing in Hollywood for a long time, and that time happened to be the hard years when he was struggling in Hollywood in his previous life.After finding out that a Chinese female star has finally emerged, of course I am very concerned.

I remember that she was with a Jew at the time, who was a shareholder of Time Warner and also an investor.This kind of sugar daddy is very normal in Hollywood. If an outsider wants to integrate into Hollywood, the best and fastest way is to find a strong enough insider.

Nicole Kidman and Cruise, Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas are ready-made examples.

But Zhang Ziyi failed in the end.In fact, her failure is still due to cultural background and racial differences. It is difficult for a yellow person to integrate into the mainstream of Hollywood.

Compared with the sharp-eyed and aggressive Zhang Ziyi in Li Tang's previous life impression, Xiao Zhang's children's shoes at this time are much cuter and purer, especially her eyes are particularly clean and agile.

Li Tang admires director Zhang Yimou's vision in selecting actresses, including Gong Li before, who is not amazing at first glance, but the more you look at it, the more interesting it becomes.And without exception, their eyes are extremely clean, without any impurities.

It is said that a good actor must maintain innocence, and clean eyes are the embodiment of inner innocence.

Of course, Zhang Ziyi at this time is not a fool. After seeing Director Zhang stop to say hello to Li Tang, she immediately came over to exchange a few words with Li Tang, and she knows how to assess the situation.

The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival lasts for four days, with NO.16 opening and NO.20 closing awards.In the middle is the promotion of some film projects and a series of seminars, symposiums and so on.

Li Tang is neither an investor nor a director, and has no interest in the promotion of any film projects. Moreover, the past two years have been the time when films have fallen to their lowest estimates. It is said that the total box office of the domestic film market this year is less than one billion yuan. , which is completely different from what he often heard in his previous life that China is the second largest film market after North America.

It is precisely because he knows that the future will be bright, so he is not worried about the current downturn at all, and he does not need to listen to so-called experts, film critics, etc. who are worried, talking about saving this and saving that. A lot of nonsense, nonsense.

On the contrary, he is quite interested in some technical seminars.Photography and art are both the embodiment of film aesthetics. At the same time, how to understand photography and art is also very helpful to the performance of actors.

During this period, he met photographer Zhao Fei, who was shortlisted for the best photography of this year's Golden Rooster Award, through the introduction of director Xiao Teng.This graduate of the 78th grade of the Department of Photography of Beitel, is a classmate with director Zhang Yimou. He has filmed "The Horse Thief" by Tianzhuangzhuang, "The Great Eunuch Li Lianying" by Jiang Wen, "Raise the Red Lantern" by Zhang Yimou, and Chen Yimou's "The Horse Thief". The director's "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin" and Feng Xiaogang's "Be There or Be Square" have almost cooperated with the current active first-line directors.

Originally, Li Tang asked him for advice on photography, but the conversation turned out to be very speculative.Because they talked a lot about foreign movies, it just so happens that Li Tang has quite ample knowledge in this regard.Later, Li Tang learned from Zhao Fei that he had accepted the invitation of the famous American director Woody Allen to act as the cameraman for Woody Allen's new movie "Amateur Thief".

On the evening of October [-]th, the closing ceremony of the [-]th China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival was grandly held in Shenyang Gymnasium.

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